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VIDEO: CDA’s Marcus Elmer on Copper’s Role in Lead Service Line Replacement

VIDEO: CDA’s Marcus Elmer on Copper’s Role in Lead Service Line Replacement

Have questions about achieving compliance with the Lead and Copper Rule Improvements (LCRI)? Marcus Elmer of the Copper Development Association (CDA) has answers. Recently, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it would uphold Biden-era regulations under the LCRI, the drinking water regulation mandating theRead More

VIDEO: The Essential Elements of Pipeline Condition Assessment

VIDEO: The Essential Elements of Pipeline Condition Assessment

Condition Assessment, Water Management July 21, 2025 at 1:15 pm

The traditional mindset around managing buried infrastructure was to build it and, essentially, forget about it until the end of its useful life — that mindset is changing. In this new edition of Water Finance & Management Conversations, Paul Acosta, Principal Condition Assessment Specialist atRead More

WATCH: Prioritizing Assets Using Risk-Based Planning

WATCH: Prioritizing Assets Using Risk-Based Planning

In this edition of Water Finance & Management Conversations, we talk with Greta Vladeanu, Senior Program Engineer-Data Insights, with Xylem. Vladeanu gives us a detailed overview of how utilities can develop an effective pipeline management program, how approaches to managing transmission mains differ from distributionRead More

WATCH: Validating Lead Pipe Materials and Mueller’s PipeScreen Service Line Analyzer

WATCH: Validating Lead Pipe Materials and Mueller’s PipeScreen Service Line Analyzer

Water Management November 30, 2023 at 7:00 am

Field validation of historical records is required for lead service line inventories. How are utilities approaching it? Which technologies and methods are utilities using to locate and identify lead? Dave Johnston, Director of Smart Infrastructure at Mueller, joins us on a new edition of WaterRead More

WATCH: Saving the Ratepayer Money…With Optimization

WATCH: Saving the Ratepayer Money…With Optimization

Technology Perspectives, Water Management September 7, 2023 at 11:00 am

Shaun Thompson, Strategic Account Manager-Water/Wastewater at Badger Meter, joins us for a new episode of Water Finance & Management Conversations. We talk to Thompson about his previous position working on the utility side in wastewater treatment. He also walks us through some ways operators areRead More

WATCH: Breaking Down Silos in Water Distribution

WATCH: Breaking Down Silos in Water Distribution

AMR/AMI, Water Loss, Water Management May 31, 2023 at 7:20 am

A distribution system can be anywhere from a single square mile to several hundred square miles. What happens to the water as it travels though the distribution system and how that information gets to decision makers is critical. As our guest Joe DeVito, senior managerRead More

WATCH: Mueller’s Dave Johnston on Lead Service Line Locating, LCRR Compliance

WATCH: Mueller’s Dave Johnston on Lead Service Line Locating, LCRR Compliance

Rehab & Replacement, Water Management May 19, 2023 at 2:06 pm

In the latest edition of Water Finance & Management Conversations, Dave Johnston, director of smart infrastructure at Mueller, joins us for a discussion on compliance with the U.S. EPA’s Lead and Copper Rule Revisions (LCRR). The LCRR requires water utilities of all sizes to developRead More

Why Digital Twin & Why Now? Bentley’s Shar Govindan Chats with WF&M

Why Digital Twin & Why Now? Bentley’s Shar Govindan Chats with WF&M

Tech Stream, Water Management January 30, 2023 at 12:58 pm

We know that a digital twin is a realistic and dynamic virtual representation of a physical asset, process or system created by integrating existing models and data. But what makes it unique among many of the software offerings available to water systems? What are some of theRead More

How Lead-Free Manufacturing Improves Sustainability with Mueller’s Graham Hines

How Lead-Free Manufacturing Improves Sustainability with Mueller’s Graham Hines

Water Management January 16, 2023 at 3:00 pm

In this edition of WF&M Conversations, we talk with Mueller’s Graham Hines, Plant Manager at the company’s lead-free brass foundry in Decatur, Illinois. To eliminate exposure to lead and help ensure the sustainability throughout the lifecycle of its products, Mueller is eliminating lead-based products andRead More

Staying in Control: Waterworth’s JP Joly on Forecasting Revenue, Rates

Staying in Control: Waterworth’s JP Joly on Forecasting Revenue, Rates

Can’t predict the future when it comes to capital planning? Instead, control the future with continuous rate management. On this edition of WF&M Conversations, JP Joly, founder of Waterworth, joins Water Finance & Management managing editor Andrew Farr to discuss to the advantages of waterRead More